adage
adage
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n.（名词）
A saying that sets forth a general truth and that has gained credit through long use.See Synonyms atsaying
谚语，格言：表达普遍真理并在长期使用过程中获得确认的格言参见saying
ORIGIN
1.French
法语
2.from Old French
源自 古法语
3.from Latinadagium
源自 拉丁语adagium
USAGE
It is sometimes claimed that the expressionold adage is redundant, inasmuch as a saying must have a certain tradition behind it to count as anadage in the first place. But the word adage is first recorded by theOED in the phraseold adage, showing that this redundancy itself is very old.Such idiomatic redundancy is paralleled by similar phrases such asyoung whelp.
有时人们认为old adage 这种表达方式很累赘， 因为谚语首先必须具有一定的传统才能成为adage 。 但是adage 这个词首次是以old adage 这个词组形式收录于《牛津英语词典》， 由此可表明这种累赘本身就很古老。这种谚语上的累赘与类似的词组对等，如年轻的幼犬
